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Juntei Kannon of Kami Daigo-ji, from an untitled album of prints from the Thirty-three Kannon Temples of the Saigoku Pilgrimage Route


西国三十三所おふだ帖 第十一番 上醍醐 准胝堂 准胝観音 「十一番上醍醐寺」
Japanese
Edo period
19th century

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink on paper, with hand-applied color
Dimensions Album page: 26 x 25.3 cm (10 1/4 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr.
Accession NumberRES.60.14.12
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionTemple No. 11 on the pilgrimage route.
From an album of 33 small prints and two paintings, RES.60.14.1-35. The prints appear to have been collected from each of the temples on the pilgrimage route; embellished with colors and metallic pigments, probably in a professional workshop; and then gathered together into an album. The small paintings of a priest at the end of the album and a courtier at the beginning may represent respectively Tokudô Shônin, who established the pilgrimage route in the 8th century, and Emperor Kazan, who rediscovered it in the 10th century; or they may represent a priest and a patron closer in time to the compilation of the album.
Signed Unsigned
無款
ProvenanceBy 1932, Robert Treat Paine, Jr. (b. 1900 - d. 1965), Cambridge, MA [see note]; 1960, gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr. to the MFA. (Accession date: November 9, 1960)

NOTE: Lent by Robert Treat Paine, Jr. to the MFA in 1932.